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2. The system of claim 1 wherein updating the status indicator further comprises, in response to receiving a request to update the status indicator for the particular tag, updating the status indicator for the particular tag to indicate that the reported issue is resolved.
3. The system of claim 2 wherein the request to update the status indicator for the particular tag is received from an administrator device.
4. The system of claim 2 wherein the request to update the status indicator for the particular tag is received from the employee device that received the issue alert, an employee device that did not receive the issue alert, a nonemployee device, the user mobile device, and combinations thereof.
5. The system of claim 1 further comprising monitoring a status of the reported issue and sending a notice to the user mobile device to see if the reported issue has been resolved.
6. The system of claim 5 further comprising sending a communication to the same employee device that received the issue alert, a different employee device that did not receive the issue alert, or both, the communication to indicate that the reported issue has not been resolved.
7. The system of claim 1 further comprising receiving a photo, text, or both together with the reported issue and uploading the photo, text, or both to the database in association with the particular tag.
8. The system of claim 1 wherein the network of scannable tags includes scannable tags selected from the group consisting of: quick response (QR) code tags, near-field communications (NFC) tags, radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags, and combinations thereof.
9. The system of claim 1 wherein reporting the issue includes reporting an engagement opportunity selected from the group consisting of: buying tickets for a campus-related event, registering for a campus-related event, polling, forming study groups, and combinations thereof.
10. The system of claim 1 wherein receiving a report of the issue includes receiving a report of an issue selected from the group consisting of: a wellness issue, an emergency issue, a maintenance issue, a safety issue, a housekeeping issue, an after-dark escort request, and combinations thereof.
11. The system of claim 1 further comprising receiving from an administrative device a plurality of grouping of tags within the network of tags, one grouping in the plurality to include a master tag and the particular tag, and wherein updating the status indicator for the master tag also updates the status indicator for the particular tag.
12. The system of claim 1 further comprising receiving a request from an administrator device to redirect the mobile device to alternative content in response to scanning a tag in the network of tags with the mobile device.
13. The system of claim 1 further comprising receiving from an administrator device a triggering event to be associated with each tag in the network of tags, the triggering event, if it occurs, to cause the system to send additional content to each user mobile device within the educational campus that has scanned at least one tag in the network of tags.
15. The method of claim 14 wherein the issue is selected from the group consisting of: a cleaning issue, a maintenance issue, a security issue, a safety issue, a wellness issue, an emergency, and combinations thereof.
16. The method of claim 14 further comprising receiving, from an administrative device, an instruction regarding the second mobile device to which the issue alert is to be sent.
17. The method of claim 14 wherein the indicator that the issue has been resolved is received from an administrative device, the second mobile device, or both.
19. The method of claim 18 further comprising detecting the issue report request from the nonemployee device and in response thereto sending an issue alert to the employee device, to a first responder, to an administrator, and combinations thereof.
20. The method of claim 19 further comprising updating a database record associated with the distinct point of interest to indicate that the issue report request was received, the issue alert has been sent, and the issue relating to the distinct point of interest is not yet resolved.
21. The method of claim 20 further comprising receiving instructions from an administrator device to change the database record to indicate that the issue relating to the distinct point of interest is resolved.
22. The method of claim 19 wherein detecting the issue report request from the nonemployee device includes detecting the issue report request from the nonemployee device reporting an issue associated with an object, an area, or a person.
23. The method of claim 18 wherein the network of tags includes tags that are encoded according to near-field communications (NFC) chip technologies, quick response (QR) code technologies, or both, the tag encoded to include a uniform resource locator (URL) which includes the unique tag identifier.
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October 11, 2022
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